Chapter 450

When the capital of the Ming Dynasty was broken, Chongzhen and empress Zhou hanged themselves. As the news spread to all parts of the country, the world was shocked. Some applauded, sympathized and sighed more, and some were sad and angry.

When the news reached Xiangyang, Zhang Yan was stunned. In the next few days, she washed her face with tears and looked in a trance. Qin Yu received the news five days later. She was also stunned.

At this time, it was mid June. The three armed forces had been facing off for two months in the Taihu Lake area, almost one month after the capital was broken.

"Your Majesty, that's great. As long as we tell the Ming army in the city about this news, it will greatly hurt their morale." Qin Yi clapped his hands and said that compared with Qin Huan's sigh, he didn't care about Chongzhen's life and death.

"You idiot, there is already an emperor in Nanjing. The life and death of Chongzhen is related to the shit of the Ming army in the city. They can't wait for the emperor Chongzhen to die early." Qin Huan scolded angrily.

It is true that Chongzhen does not die. No matter how beautiful the fig leaf is, these officers and soldiers in Nanjing are always disorderly officials and thieves. Now once Chongzhen dies, he will be completely regularized, and there is no need to worry about being settled in the future.

"What the king taught is that the end general is ignorant, but the king, Niu Er, they have broken the capital. Should we continue to consume like this?" Qin Yi shrunk his neck and said something worried.

Qin Huan's face also became ugly. What he had expected would be able to calm the Jiangnan in three months at most. Who would have thought it would be delayed from March to June.

For more than a month, there have been frequent underground rainstorms, which have made the soldiers miserable, and the firearms have no place to play.

Although Lu Xiangsheng's army had been forced into the city by him for a long time, it was still struggling, but he refused to surrender. Because there were a large number of left troops outside, he did not dare to attack the city by force to avoid heavy losses, so he had to choose siege.

"It seems that we can't put it off any longer."

Qin Huan finally looked at the map and said helplessly that although he had no way to take Lu Xiangsheng, Zuo Liangyu could not break Jiujiang Susong and Huangmei. This situation was a stalemate for a year and a half. He was not afraid, but now the situation in the North has changed greatly, which made him worried.

He was worried that Manchu would take advantage of the weakness. Huang Taiji was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He would have to wait another two years to die. If he said that Huang Taiji would be indifferent to such a good opportunity, he wouldn't believe it.

Although there were many coincidences in the history of Hou Jin entering the pass, which seemed accidental, Qin Huan knew that it was an inevitable result. Even if Wu Sangui did not open the Shanhai Pass and lead the Qing army into the pass, people would enter the pass sooner or later.

Because Houjin has made full preparations, only owes the east wind. If it doesn't blow today, it will blow tomorrow, and if it doesn't blow tomorrow, it will blow sooner or later.

What's more, Zuo Liangyu's dog has learned to be smart recently. Unexpectedly, he also surrounded but did not attack. He began to attack everywhere and rob his logistics supply team.

"Your Majesty, why don't you use the move you did when you attacked Xiangyang and throw fire medicine bags with hot-air balloons!"

"When the hot-air balloon is brought over, the cauliflower is cold, but you remind me, hehe..."

Qin Huan waved his hand and said. At last, a smile came out of his mouth. Although the rain had a great impact on firearms and the killing power of artillery was small, there were a lot of gunpowder in the military camp. As long as he tried to throw these gunpowder into the city and explode, he would not believe that the people in the city would not collapse.

If you want to do this, you can not only throw powder bags with a catapult, but also try to make fire dragon water. After all, this thing is simple and simple.

Qin Huan was always a quick witted man. He immediately recruited craftsmen and began to build a large-scale catapult. He took hundreds of carpenters and began to make rockets of the Ming Dynasty.

Qin Huan didn't plan to build any booster. He just wanted to build a simple two-stage rocket. The first half was loaded with gunpowder to explode, the second half was loaded with gunpowder to propel, the tail was equipped with four tail wings, and the top was equipped with a conical warhead.

The material is simpler. In addition to wood, that is, bamboo, the man's Nanzhu is thick enough to be seen everywhere.

Just three days later, a sample was prepared for the test launch.

That day, I saw a wooden shelf on the open space outside the city, on which a long bamboo tube was placed obliquely.

Bamboo is about two meters long and almost four inches in diameter. At the top is a conical cork, and at the tail is four triangular thin boards, almost one meter long. All the bamboo knots in the middle of the bamboo tube are broken through.

The composition of the explosive powder is different from that of the propelling powder. The whole bamboo is filled with 30 kg of gunpowder, 20 kg of propellant and 10 kg of explosive powder.

The middle is isolated by a wooden plug. There is a small hole in the middle of the plug. Put the fuse in advance, and then slowly knock it into the bamboo barrel.

The tail of the bamboo tube was stuffed with a layer of compacted cotton. At the moment, hundreds of carpenters and generals looked at it curiously. Qin Huan also looked forward to this strange bamboo tube.

Everything was ready. At Qin Huan's command, a soldier turned pale and trembled to the end of the bamboo tube with a torch, carefully lit the cotton, and then quickly dropped the torch and ran away.

Whew

A few seconds later, the tail of the bamboo tube suddenly spewed out a flame, and then dragged a thick white smoke into the air, emitting a sharp whistling sound.

Everyone stared. Qin Huan followed the path of the bamboo tube without blinking. Only two seconds later, they heard a loud noise in the air, and the bamboo tube was blown apart.

"Good!"

Everyone was shocked by the huge explosion and shouted loudly.

Qin Huan's face sank. The bamboo tube flew out almost two hundred meters away, and the track was stable, but it just fell and exploded, at least hundreds of meters from the ground. If it fell to the ground and exploded again, the range was estimated to be three or four hundred meters.

"Your Majesty, this thing is so powerful. I'm afraid it can blow Taihu County into waste as long as 100 pieces."

"King, do you want to make it vigorously next?"

Qin Huan rubbed his hands and ran over excitedly. A group of carpenters surrounded him excitedly.

"Didn't you see that it exploded in the air just now?" Qin Huan narrowed his eyes and still looked at the white smoke in the air.

In this case, unless it is directly fired, it is impossible to hit the target before it explodes, and it is not a problem that can be solved by adjusting the launch angle.

"This... Isn't it an explosion?" The crowd was obviously a little confused. For a long time, a carpenter carefully tried to say, "is the king loaded with too much propellant?"

"It's not about propellant." Qin Huan waved his hand, then fell into meditation. After a long time, he suddenly patted his forehead: "I understand that the fuse in the middle is too short. As soon as the short propellant behind burns out, it detonates the gunpowder in front. Look at the situation just now, it will be delayed by at least two seconds, or even three seconds."